In my view, if someone willfully attacks you, you have the right to defend yourself (including retaliation in kind) up to the point where you are no longer in danger. Clarity on the nature of the situation is perhaps the simplest means to achieve this (since presumably they would not attack me if they understood that I am innocent), and has the side effects of bringing the person in question closer to divinity (since clarity is a property of the divine) and helping them to process their negative actions prior to the after-death state, where they can still do something about it (because I'm truly concerned for the karma they've heaped up regarding our relationship, of which this attack is a part).
But... clarity is by no means a unalloyed good! In particular, if one has done wrong, the understanding of it can bring a lot of pain; it also calls one to a greater depth responsibility. But despite that, clarity is something I wish for more of in my own life, and I think one can only request things of others that one is willing to take on oneself.
But since others don't have this specific relationship to the person in question, I don't think they have the right to retaliate; if I were to encourage it, I would become an attacker myself, and I don't want that karma.
(Prayers for protection not involving the attacker don't carry a sense of retaliation, and thereby don't carry the same burden.)
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In my view, if someone willfully attacks you, you have the right to defend yourself (including retaliation in kind) up to the point where you are no longer in danger. Clarity on the nature of the situation is perhaps the simplest means to achieve this (since presumably they would not attack me if they understood that I am innocent), and has the side effects of bringing the person in question closer to divinity (since clarity is a property of the divine) and helping them to process their negative actions prior to the after-death state, where they can still do something about it (because I'm truly concerned for the karma they've heaped up regarding our relationship, of which this attack is a part).
But... clarity is by no means a unalloyed good! In particular, if one has done wrong, the understanding of it can bring a lot of pain; it also calls one to a greater depth responsibility. But despite that, clarity is something I wish for more of in my own life, and I think one can only request things of others that one is willing to take on oneself.
But since others don't have this specific relationship to the person in question, I don't think they have the right to retaliate; if I were to encourage it, I would become an attacker myself, and I don't want that karma.
(Prayers for protection not involving the attacker don't carry a sense of retaliation, and thereby don't carry the same burden.)